When Holocaust survior Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish - American soldier gave her a banknote on which he written " Good luck and happiness." When her great-grandson Dov decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI, ninety- six year old Lily found herself making headlines around the world. Lliy had promised herself that if she survived Auschwitz she would tell everyone the truth about the camp. Now was her chance.

In Lily's promis she writes about her childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and her two youngest siblings on arrival in Auschwitz. She describes  the horrors and inhumanity, but also acts of defiance which gave her the strength and determination. The death of her youngest siblings in 1944 on arrival in Auschwitz, strengthen her determination to keep her other two sisters safe.

Lily and her sisters became slave labour in a munition factory, faced a death march that they barely survived.

Lily lost so much, but she managed to built a new life for herself and her family. First in Israel and later in London, England. This wasn't easy as the pain of Auschwitz was always with her. Lily is a extraordinary women who found strength to speak out and in the hope that this evil would never happen again.

Lily Ebert dies at the age of 100, but her message will live on, it will not be forgotten thanks to Dov Forman her great - grandson.

Lily Ebert, a Holocaust hero, Promised herself on Yom Kippur 1944 in Auschwitz, that if she would survive she would tell the world about the Holocaust. She dedicated her life by sharing her story, educated people about the Holocaust and the camps. Spreading hope and light and making sure that no Jew would ever have to suffer the atrocity she did.

Lily devoted herself together with her great- grandson Dov, to educate the younger generation in schools, her story was recorded in the British Libary and the Imperial War Museum.

Lily and Dov together lobbied succesfully for the creation of a UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. In 2021, which captured the hearts of a audience young and old and millions on social media, were she shared her story with the younger generation around the world.

Lily was also involved in setting up The Jewish Care Holocaust Survivors Centre in 1990s and in 2009 she was telling them,

" The community thinks that what we went through is our problem to deal with. But it's not. Everyone should be involved ".